I think we should go back to years (for most software, in fact, not just languages). Languages change slowly enough (or should) that, e.g. "Ada 2021" should be

I think we should go back to years (for most software, in fact, not just languages). Languages change slowly enough (or should) that, e.g. "Ada 2021" should be unambiguous enough. For language implementation versions, then we can add semantic numbers afterwards.